Photography: A photographic study of how girls express themselves in Leeds by photographer Casey Orr

Yesterday this project came to us via an enormous, floppy, colourful publication with each page dedicated to a teenage girl from Leeds. This is the photography project of my dreams. Photographer Casey Orr has a Ph.D in photography and is a senior lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, she took time studying the type of girls you see around Leeds and was so fascinated by the day they expressed themselves through their fashion and hairstyles she decided to make a project out of it.

When you see crowds of them loitering round the town centre in any city it can be easy to just assume all these girls dress and look the same, but that is just not the case. Each one of them is a powerful woman in the making, carving out their persona with accessories and hairstyles bought with part-time job wages and a lot of spare time. These young girls are doing all they can to stand out from the crowd and use fashion as a means of doing so. Three cheers for Casey for spotting this and for putting these girls in print, on a pedestal where they belong.

This is by no means Casey’s best work, either. Go to her site to find documented voyages, portraits of whole towns, and a truly charming series of photos of unlit bonfires built by teenagers. New favourite photographer, hands down.

“Usually the model is freezing on shoots… this time it was the other way around,” says photographer Mirka Laura Severa on her latest project for SZ Magazin. Asked to concept a fashion shoot for down jackets, Mirka looked for an unusual way to showcase the products, and came up with the idea to use snowmen as models. The result is a hilarious series of images depicting well-dressed snowpeople frolicking, posing and taking selfies in a winter wonderland.

Brooklyn-based photographer Roe Ethridge has become known for exploring the fake and plastic nature of photography and in his work he often adapts existing images by adding new interpretations of reality or shoots highly stylised images inspired by classical compositions.

In 1982, distinguished photographer David Bailey published NW1 a photographic series of fading areas of London which David had inhabited for almost 30 years. As the iconic and recognisable buildings closed their doors, the photographer famed for his portraits, pointed his lens towards the decaying architectural beauty.

We tend not to notice stuff until something’s wrong with it. How aware are you of the lights in your house until a bulb goes out? When was the last time you thought about your pancreas? Flaws, problems and incongruities are what make us conscious of a thing’s existence. Without aberration, we don’t just lose our sense of normal, we lose our sense entirely.